Stillness

Alternative title: Freud Eggs
Alternative title: EDM(R)

This week's Disquiet Junto prompt was to create a piece of music that you might hear as you wait to enter a therapist's office.

I knew I wanted some inoffensive "waiting" music that repeated so much that it faded into the background. I also wanted to recreate the white noises machines that are used to block out conversations. I also added to binaural waves that beat at the "gamma" frequency, which allegedly boost self-awareness and problem-solving (I think? For the life of me I can't find the web page I got that info from). 



I used some sidechain gating and flipped sidechain gating to the white noise play with and against the percussion and before I knew it, I had a 3 minute song.

This is licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

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More on this 515th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Talking Cure (The Assignment: Write music for a psychotherapist’s waiting room) — at: https://disquiet.com/0515/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0515-talking-cure/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

Image credit: Lamont Hall, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Waiting room, 1956. Public domain.

Therapme (Disquiet0515)

Field recording of the Steavenson River, Buxton, Australia.
The bird calls are typical in a dry schlerophyll forest biome - kookaburras, parrots, fantails, thornbills, rosellas and whistlers.

Steavensons [disquiet0516]

A few minutes of civilisation - walking around town with a Tascam on 27 November.

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More on this 517th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Inside Out (Co/Exist 2 of 3) (The Assignment: Record a minute or two of civilization) – at: https://disquiet.com/0517/

This is the second of a three-part project sequence. You can participate in all three parts, or any two of the three, or even just any one of them. Part one began on November 18 and ended on November 22, part two began on November 25, and part three will begin on December 2. Thanks to Alan Bland and Mark Lentczner for having proposed the project.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 2: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0517-inside-out-co-exist-2-of-3/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to marc@disquiet.com for Slack inclusion.

disquiet0517 - 'go barry'

This week's haiku is by Elancharan Gunasekaran:
     lightning thunder
     and rain
     all speaking at once
It inspired this improvisation (in D Dorian) played on three instances of Hybrid VST synth. 
Recorded and mixed in Reaper. No added effects. Mastered with CloudBounce.
Naviar haiku challenge: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

Weatherspeak (naviarhaiku436)

Lost in Crystal Cavern [part 2]

Original Score inspired by the Paul Tremblay novel Disappearance at Devils Rock

Massapoag Avenue - We lost Tommy

Hunted by the Unseen

Ypten [part 2]

UPPERS BRING ME DOWN

Maybe I’m too deep 
in the pit
cause when the prayers that I’ve been sending 
finally reach the ears of heaven 
they’re too distorted in their distance from my lips

and I want to rest in peace 
and I’m forever this damn tired
from fighting off defeat 

Got me calling all the spirits near
to carry on my message 
pass it through for heaven’s ear
and I must find the strength 
to persevere 
thorns pressed upon my flesh 
chains with weights to slow my step 
and I’m 
acquainted with death 
just want to rest in peace 
seems I’m always this damn tired 
fighting off defeat 
yea
might be in too deep 
sending prayers from the pit 
vibrations reaching heaven 
distorted in the distance from my lips

The Distance From My Lips

mikey_a is an ambient and soundscape artist living in Melbourne, Australia.
Though now producing mainly in the box with a mix of VST and field recordings he still likes to occasionally crank out some of the physical treasures he's owned since the '80s: a Korg MonoPoly, a Roland TR-606, TB-303, S-10 and D-110 along with a TEAC 3440 reel-to-reel.
He is a frequent contributor to the Naviar Records' Haiku Challenge and Disquiet Junto projects.